Can a ninja explain this to me

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Fixed that for you.

I'm not even going to dive into the opener you just posted, because there's just so much wrong with it. Please keep the misconceptions of pulling with 5 seconds left on mudra cd being anywhere near "ideal" out of here.

With that attitude you may as well suhunkuchi->hide->TA on pull before hide is disabled by combat status and not waste any ninjutsu at all, replacing your AE with a duality dancing before the DoTs and a double raiton. I don't know if you have terrible lag or godly skillspeed, but if you can't fit suiton into a single GCD, something is up.

Yes it's ok if you need to suiton first, the buff lasts long enough to get your DA in before TA, but there's no real benefit to that. You still can't hold it long enough to get your base ninjutsu back up before TA wears off, so you still need to kassatsu your raiton. Your method is the exact same as mine as long as the fight starts correctly for each. The only difference is I get slightly more time on my huton, but both leave plenty of a buffer for a typical armor crush rotation to stay up.

Your method is not any better than mine. Both are equally valid and should be switched between depending on how your tank times things.